Ladies, if you want an hourglass figure, you have to work for it! Not only by sticking with our diet and great workout plan, but with another kind of training- waist training.

Its a great idea to invest in a garment that will help contour your mid-section to give you that hourglass shape. Another natural way to cinch your waist includes doing herbal body wrap two to three a week, for 8 hours at a time a week. Wrap your midsection with plastic wrap coated with petroleum jelly or coconut oil. This treatment will moisturize your skin and train your waist to the ideal form you’re looking for! Now ladies don’t get confused when focusing on your waist area. Some might misinterpret that tight-lacing or waist training are similar method to help contour your waist. Some corset companies use the terms interchangeably, which can be confusing or possibly even dangerous because saying that a corset is designed for “waist training”, a client may come along with an entirely different idea of what “waist training” really is, and may end up using the corset in a way that it was not designed for. So when a corset company claims it to be appropriate for waist training, be very careful about how they define that term before you invest.

Some people say that tight lacing is anything beyond a 4 inch reduction. This may be challenging if you have a natural 24 waist, but easy if you have a 40 waist. Others say that tight-lacing is anything more than 20% reduction, which would obviously be different if you are starting from a different size. This would be the equivalent of a person with a 24 waist lacing down to about 19, while the person with the 40 natural waist being able to lace down to 32. Still others say that tight lacing is arbitrary and dependent on the individual’s personal squishiness, tolerance to restriction, etc. Therefore two people with the same starting waist may each cinch down to a different point, they may have a different apparent hip spring, etc. but as long as they are laced to the point where it is a ‘challenging’ (but not painful) reduction, each may be considered a tight lacier in their own right.

Just like weight training, voice training or marathon training, waist training is something that you work at over time. It involves a certain intention, end goal, consistent work and dedication. Can you still be called a waist trainer?

If you are just starting out with waist training and you cannot tolerate high reductions, then you can still call it waist training if you want. Some people wear their corsets all day, every day at a 2-3 inch reduction, which to most lacier’s would likely not be classified as “tight-lacing”. If you’re petite with a natural 22 waist and you can’t lace down that much – or even if you’re larger but you just can’t tolerate a lot of pressure – but you are dedicated and try to wear your corset on a near-daily basis, don’t let anybody tell you “that’s not waist training”.

If you can tight lace, and you do so every day (even if you only do it because you enjoy it and don’t have particular goals), some might consider this to be waist training as well. You can be a tight-lacer without waist training, and you can waist train without being a tight-lacer (to a point). But many people are both at the same time, if they can achieve high reductions for long durations on a daily basis.

Yes!! It is as wonderful as it sounds, groundbreaking research has just identified a compound that can not only help you gain weight, but can actually resshape your entire body by slimming the waistline while enhancing thigh and buttock circumference, and reducing those stubborn belly bulges and… last but most certainly not least…give you the curves that us women all desire. Has the “miracle pill” finally arrived?

It doesn’t happen very often, but every once in a blue moon a new body-sculpting product comes along that really gets me excited. And the fact that I get to tell you all about it before “Dr. Oz” just has me ecstatic! The product is called Perfect Curves and it’s from Brazil and unlike your run-of-the-mill that’s make you loose weight. Now you can stop worrying about loosing weight and start sculpting those beautiful curves! Perfect Curves can actually reshape your entire body… Contouring your curves and adding fullness and roundness to your buttocks, slimming down the inches of unsightly fat from you waist… Some people are calling it “Magic in a bottle.” However, this “miracle pill” is backed by research and highly respected by the women of Brazil.

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An unnamed celebrity hired British ice cream company, Lick Me I’m Delicious, to make a Viagra brand of ice cream for a big party, and we weren’t invited! Created by Charlie Harry Francis, the flavor — called Arousal — was blue (just like those little blue Viagras) and tasted like champagne. Slurp, slurp.

The “guy-ce” cream contained around 25mg of Viagra per scoop. Viagra is available in 25, 50, and 100 milligrams; for most patients, the recommended dose is 50 milligrams. The Daily Mailreports that all the guests were “very happy with the end result.” Holla!

How To Get Your Protein

Gals, we know we talk about this a lot. Protein. You need it with every meal. Beans are a great source of not only protein but fiber, folate, plant iron, vitamin B1, and minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and copper, and are naturally low in sodium. Plus, they’re cheap!

According to this piece on Care2.com, though canned beans are still inexpensive, they cost about three times more than dried beans — but since dried beans can take hours to cook, many families opt for the more convenient choice. But the sodium content of canned beans can be 100 times that of cooked! You can drain and rinse the canned beans to get rid of about half the sodium, but you’re also draining and rinsing away some of the nutrition.

So! If you can, prepare dried beans. And if you do buy canned beans, get the no-salt-added varieties, and keep the bean juice.

It’s okay to cry, we all do it. But they say that real strengthis fighting the hardest when you’re feeling the weakest. Have your moment by yourself, let it all out, or have your moment with your closest friends, but then move on — and don’t let the people who want to keep you down, see you falter.